The NYRB China Archive
12.23.10![](https://www.chinafile.com/sites/default/files/styles/system/public/assets/images/article/system/gettyimages-174453825.jpg?itok=Q6w4KDre)
Xanadu in New York
from New York Review of Books
1.The Mongols inhabited a vast, featureless grass plain where the soil was too thin for crops. They raised horses, cattle, yaks, sheep, and goats, and subsisted almost entirely on meat and milk and milk products. The women milked the cows and the...